LiveRamp · 10 hours ago
Director, Data Engineering
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$200K/yr - $288K/yr
10+ years expLiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. The Director of Data Engineering will define and execute the data engineering strategy, lead a global team of data engineers, and architect a modern data platform focused on scalability and performance.
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Responsibilities
Define and execute LiveRamp’s data engineering strategy, aligning with company objectives, product vision, and AI readiness goals
Architect a modern, cloud-first data platform focused on scalability, performance, and cost optimization
Lead the evolution of our semantic and data layers, ensuring data is discoverable, reliable, and self-serve across business functions
Champion data platform modernization and modern data principles (e.g., data mesh, lakehouse architectures, and composability)
Drive automation, observability, and FinOps practices to enhance operational efficiency and reduce cloud costs
Provide hands-on technical leadership — participating in architectural reviews, building proofs of concept, and guiding design and implementation decisions
Lead, mentor, and grow a global team of data engineers, with a focus on expanding our technical excellence and capabilities in India
Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning across distributed teams
Serve as a player-coach: both managing and contributing directly to technical solutions and platform delivery
Build strong partnerships with Analytics, Product, and Engineering leaders to ensure alignment between data infrastructure and analytic outcomes
Implement data governance, lineage, and access control frameworks to ensure compliance, privacy, and ethical use of data
Advance observability and reliability practices, ensuring proactive monitoring and optimization of pipelines and workloads
Promote standardization, reusability, and maintainability across data products and services
Partner with Analytics and Data Science teams to design AI- and ML-ready infrastructure, enabling feature stores, vector databases, and real-time pipelines
Ensure the data platform supports AI-driven decision intelligence, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and self-service analytics
Collaborate on the integration of Generative AI and LLM-based tools to improve accessibility and efficiency of data insights
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in data engineering or data architecture roles, including 5+ years leading technical teams
Proven experience building and scaling global data engineering teams, especially across the U.S. and India
A hands-on technical leader with deep experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing modern data platforms (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Kafka, Spark)
Expertise in data modeling, ELT/ETL pipelines, orchestration, and semantic layer design
Familiarity with multi-cloud, lakehouse, and data mesh architectures, and best practices for data observability and quality
Strong understanding of FinOps, cost optimization, and workload management in cloud environments
Experience enabling AI, ML, and analytics workloads through scalable, reliable data infrastructure
Excellent communication and storytelling skills; able to align technical strategies with business outcomes
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Preferred
Experience integrating Generative AI and LLM-based workflows into data pipelines
Exposure to modern data observability and governance platforms (e.g., Monte Carlo, Atlan, DataHub, Alation)
Experience defining and executing FinOps programs or cloud cost optimization initiatives
Proven ability to lead and inspire high-performing, cross-regional teams in fast-paced environments
Benefits
Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives. Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers)
A comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program—we provide you with equipment and tools to be your most productive self, no matter where you're located
Company
LiveRamp
LiveRamp aspires to make it safe and easy for companies to use data effectively.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$16M2018-10-29IPO
2013-04-01Series C
2011-09-06Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Scott Howe
Chief Executive Officer
Burak Emre Kabakçı
Sr. Staff Software Engineer
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